Shear zones are markers of localized and heterogeneous deformation of the continental crust. They are also considered to represent drains where the fluids present within the crust preferentially flow. Although many markers of fluid flow are present in the petrological and geochemical record, tracing the entire hydrothermal circulation system, including its source, remains a challenge. In orogenic belts, gold mineralizations are mainly located along shear zones and can be tracers of the hydrothermal fluid circulation. In the eastern Pyrenees, the Canigou massif exposes a late-orogenic Variscan metamorphic dome. The former migmatitic middle crust is exhumed in the core. Vein-type gold mineralizations are localized at its rim, which correspond...